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CSWS faculty affiliates among those honored with UO teaching awards

May 23, 2017—Two CSWS faculty affiliates are among those to receive UO’s highest teaching honors. Elly Vandergrift, senior instructor I, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences; received the Thomas F. Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy. Kristin Yarris, assistant professor, Department of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences; was given the Ersted Award for Specialized Pedagogy, in recognition of achievement and expertise in the area of global health.

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Bhairavi Desai: 2018 Margaret Hallock Program speaker

Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will be the 2018 Margaret Hallock Program speaker for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. She’ll be visiting on May 2-3, 2018 and giving talks in both Eugene and Portland about the NYTWA as well as immigrant workers’ rights broadly.

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Yi Yu.

2017-18 CSWS Research Grant Awardees

The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $60,000 in student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2017-18 Academic Year. The research being funded includes projects focused in Portland, Oregon, and all over the globe.

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First Acker-Morgen Lecture will honor two UO feminist scholars

When Joan Acker, who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and Sandra Morgen, a longtime center director, passed away last year the UO lost two powerful feminist voices. But their messages will continue with the inaugural Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture, which will be held in the Knight Library Browsing Room starting at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 24.

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A DAY WITHOUT A WOMAN

Today, March 8, 2017 – International Women’s Day – the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon stands in solidarity with women across the United States and the globe to illustrate the indispensable role women play as workers, caregivers, and overall members of our society and participants in our economies. As is the case internationally, here in the U.S., women are a vital part of the foundation and fabric of every facet of our country; without women, there is no business as usual.

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Fractional Freedoms: CSWS to Celebrate Director Michelle McKinley's New Book

On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley's book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, October 2016). The book explores domestic slavery and what Professor McKinley terms “fractional freedoms” in the context of colonial Peru. Professor McKinley, in addition to running CSWS, is also the Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. You can check her out discussing her book on the website for Studies in Legal History.

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CSWS symposium focused on food justice issues

January 24, 2017—Galvanized by fiery keynote speaker Saru Jayaraman, an audience comprised of more than 200 students, faculty, staff and community members participated in the CSWS symposium ”Food First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty” on January 23 at various locales on the UO campus. The mix of events included a morning panel, a noon-time teach-in, a documentary film, and a late afternoon keynote address and book signing.

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Director Michelle McKinley and Associate Director Sangita Gopal.

CSWS Honored by UO MLK Awards

We could not be more proud of Director Michelle McKinley and Associate Director Sangita Gopal for their awards from the MLK Awards this past week.

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Monique Balbuena’s book “Homeless Tongues” a finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards

Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliate Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, whose book Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2016, 256 pages) is a finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards in the category of Sephardic Culture, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.

Monique Balbuena is an associate professor of literature in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.

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2016-17 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows

CSWS & UO Libraries Name 2016-17 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows

January 19, 2017—Two U.S. scholars from opposite coasts were selected as recipients of the fourth annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, funded by the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) at the University of Oregon and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). is a senior lecturer in the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and a lecturer in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Roxanne Samer is a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

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Michelle Mckinley.

CSWS Leaders Honored at 2017 MLK Awards

January 18, 2017—CSWS director Michelle McKinley and associate director Sangita Gopal were among those honored at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Luncheon presented by the University of Oregon’s Division of Equity and Inclusion at the Ford Alumni Center on the UO campus. They were recognized for their exemplary work to further civil rights, equity and inclusion in the model of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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CLLAS Receives Tinker Foundation Grant for Graduate Student Funding

The Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation has approved a matching grant of $10,000—renewable for three years—to the University of Oregon to initiate a Tinker Field Research Grants Program within the Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Thanks to matching funds being contributed from the UO Office of Academic Affairs and the Graduate School, CLLAS will have $20,000 available each of three years to sponsor graduate student research.

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Afro-Aboriginal Women Healers in the Caribbean and its Diasporas event poster.

Afro-Aboriginal Women Healers in the Caribbean and its Diasporas

Professors Alai Reyes-Santos and Ana-Maurine Lara will discuss “Afro-Aboriginal Women Healers in the Caribbean and its Diasporas” in a CLLAS Faculty Grantee talk at the EMU on May 17 at 3:30 p.m. This talk focuses on their interdisciplinary study examining Caribbean women’s roles in Afro-Indigenous healing traditions and how this healing work contributes to healers’ empowerment in their communities. Research sites include the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Pacific Northwest.

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Dyana Mason

Dyana Mason: CSWS Works-in Progress Talk

A works-in-progress discussion on Monday, May 15 from noon to 1 p.m. will focus on the research of , Department of Public Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM), who was awarded a 2017-18 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for her project “Institutional Logics, Hybridity and Women’s Empowerment in an International Development Program.”

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Event poster for “Achieving Justice: Gendered Violence, Displacement, and Legal Access in Guatemala and Oregon”

Roundtable “Achieving Justice: Gendered Violence, Displacement, and Legal Access in Guatemala and Oregon”

Organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group, this roundtable will explore how gendered violence in Guatemala leads indigenous women to flee the country as refugees to seek asylum in the United States. By putting experts on gendered violence in Central America into conversation with Oregon-based asylum attorneys, the roundtable will explore the legal reforms with greatest potential to provide effective justice for its survivors.

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Jennifer Burns Bright.

LET’S TALK FOOD Conversations with Oregon Food Writers: Jennifer Burns Bright

Join the Museum of Natural and Cultural History for Let's Talk Food, a new series exploring food and culture in Oregon and beyond. Sponsored by Oregon Humanities. The conversations are included with museum admission; free for members and UO ID card holders. Third Thursdays in spring at 5:30 p.m. Fish Tales: Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon with Oregonians love the wild beauty of our 363 miles of coastline, but finding truly local seafood can be hard, even on the coast.

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Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Evelyn Nakano Glenn to deliver inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, professor emerita of the Graduate School and founding director, Center for Race and Gender, at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture on April 24, 2017. Professor Glenn's books include Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America and Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters.

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“Gender, Sexuality, and Leisure in Africa” Symposium

The symposium will bring together a group of multi-disciplinary scholars who work on different regions of Africa to present works-in-progress for an edited volume focused on issues of leisure and expressive culture in the everyday lives of women and men in Africa and the Diaspora. The symposium will consist of two concurrent morning and afternoon panels. Speakers' topics include: festival and celebrations; sports and games; love, dating, and relationships; and media and creative arts.

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A good time to hear stories of people of color | Opinion

When I attended the annual MLK awards luncheon Jan. 18 on the University of Oregon campus, I felt a warm sense of pride for my co-workers at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, where I have worked since the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009. This year the director of CSWS, a law professor from Jamaica, and the associate director, an English professor from India, were honored for “their efforts to spark changes that help bring about the civil rights leader’s vision of a more just and tolerant community.” 

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Saru Jayaraman

Saru Jayaraman—Food First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty

Lorwin Lecture Series: Keynote: (3:30–5 pm). “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining” Saru Jayaraman is the cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. The third in the series of our Lorwin endowed lectures invites reflections and debate around the themes of food justice, food sovereignty, and food security. More broadly, the conversation will explore the nuances of each of these aspects of food studies and how they either engage with each other or fail to do so.

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The door to the McKenzie 4th floor bridge.

Bridge of Cries?

We were walking through McKenzie Hall yesterday and came across this sign on the 4th floor.

What is going on here? Is this sign real? If so, what on earth are they thinking? Does anyone have more info on this?

Lactation rooms do not belong across a fourth-floor outdoor bridge!

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Alexis Lothian

Alexis Lothian: Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies

The story of lesbian science fiction is generally assumed to begin in the 1970s, as feminist political and literary movements converged with gay liberation. For her forthcoming book Old Futures: The Queer Cultural Politics of Speculative Fiction, Dr. Lothian researched speculative narratives by women, queers, and people of color that are not often included in genre histories of science fiction, from nineteenth-century utopias to twenty-first-century digital media.

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Keywords for Video Game Studies Speaker Series

A brief talk followed by Q&A on why diversity and inclusion in video games and tabletop is not just important but vital to keeping the mediums alive.  From Street Fighter to Mafia III, games are slowly getting better about who’s in the lead, who lives, who dies, and who’s story is told, but it’s still moving at a snails pace.  The history of why #INeedDiverseGames, where it started and where it’s going will be threaded throughout the presentation.

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Remembering Sandra Morgen

A celebration of life for anthropology professor Sandra Morgen will be held Tuesday, Nov. 29. Morgen died Sept. 27 of ovarian cancer, at age 66. The celebration takes place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Ford Alumni Center’s Giustina Ballroom.

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Transformative Times

Dear Friends, Champions, Supporters, and Colleagues of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, We have tried to write this statement countless times over the past two weeks since a law professor wore blackface at her Halloween party. First, there were no words. How could we even respond to that? Then, there were too many words – words that were inappropriate for public dissemination.

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Celebration of Life: Sandi Morgen

Sandi was a beloved member of our feminist community and served as director of CSWS for many productive years. Campus Celebration of Life set for Sandra Morgen, for November 29, 4 - 6 p.m. Bring your dancing shoes!

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